TRPG General Chat

BESW

22:03

Ahah. I want a motive aspect ("I must...") that indicates paranoia and shows what drives her to take risks.

trogdor

22:32

paranoia?

taking risks?

why are those things linked?

BESW

Think "in the interests of National Security."

trogdor

ah

so less of a normal paranoia and more......., what you just said

makes more sense now

Joshua Aslan Smith

@trogdor was originally meant to be a response to derby I wrote mad max instead of the username because thats what we were talking about

trogdor

22:47

@JoshuaAslanSmith I know, it was just an ill conceived attempt to tease you XD

I have bad ideas like that all the time

Joshua Aslan Smith

heh

Polyducks

Guys... I'm having an existential problem... Did Obi wan ever come back more powerful than Darth Vader could ever imagine?

trogdor

@Polyducks depends on your definition

BESW

@Polyducks I get the impression Vader had a pretty feeble imagination.

Miniman

@Polyducks He didn't say he'd come back - just that he'd become more powerful than Vader could ever imagine.

BESW

22:54

My fanfic: She-Hulk & Daredevil team up on a supreme court case about how a hero can claim trademark on their brand w/o revealing their ID.

Tweeted by DanielSolis on February 5, 2016 at 10:31 PM

Polyducks

@Miniman You're right, I misquoted - but I mean, he just turns up again all glowing.

trogdor

@BESW they are both lawyers as I recall

makes some sense

Miniman

@Polyducks But as a source of motivation, inspiration, and direction for Luke he is more powerful than Vader could possibly imagine.

Polyducks

Does he literally become one with the force?

Miniman

Well yeah, that too.

BESW

22:56

Force ghosts are... not explained much in non-Legend material.

trogdor

yeah,.... it is an iffy thing

plus, he isn't the only person who shows up

BESW

But do notice, Vader never really seems to "get" the Force.

He may not have even imagined that Obi-Wan would stick around at all after he died.

trogdor

yeah,... Vader wields the force like a cudgel

eimyr

Maybe the Force gets Vader?

BESW

In Soviet Star Wars, you are with the Force.

eimyr

22:57

Also, understanding may have come to him when he relinquished his Sith ways.

Miniman

@eimyr Well, apparently the Force got Vader in the first place, heh hehe heh.

eimyr

The joke says Soviet

@Miniman Wel... your mom!

BESW

@eimyr Yes, but the joke is called the Russian Reversal. Not confusing at all.

trogdor

lol

Miniman

@BESW You just have to remember that in popular culture USSR and Russia are identical.

eimyr

22:59

Yeah, Since I relocated I have learned that everyone seems to think I come from a soviet state

and the best part of it? I come from one of the very few non-soviet eastern europe countries

anyway, Vader's relationship with the Force is best described by two words: daddy issues

BESW

This seems like an appropriate time to mention the Complete History of the Soviet Union, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris.

Miniman

@eimyr Wait, aren't you from Poland?

eimyr

I most certainly am.

But I live in the UK now.

Miniman

How could anyone get that confused?

eimyr

People who don't care?

Ignorance is one thing, stupidity and arrogance another.

BESW

23:02

@Miniman I met people in the US who think Guam (a US territory) is an independent country in the Middle East, the Caribbean, and off the coast of South America. That isolationist British folks would be devastatingly ignorant of recent Eastern European history is unsurprising to me.

trogdor

yeah, I am not surprised by that kind of thing either

then again, same reason here XD

BESW

These are the same folks who'd probably be unable to differentiate between Taiwan and Korea.

eimyr

Or Korea and Korea.

Or China and Korea.

Or China and Asia.

Miniman

@BESW There's no good way to say this, but...I can completely understand not having heard of Guam. Poland just boggles my mind.

trogdor

or even China and Japan XD

eimyr

23:04

Anyway, some people don't know much.

trogdor

@Miniman understandable I think

BESW

(Speaking of which, a recent episode of Thunderbirds Are Go! mentioned Saipan, but pronounced it totally wrong.)

eimyr

It's as if the the 99% of people only held 1% of knowledge

@BESW what is the right way to pronounce it?

trogdor

at the very least, reading anything about the beginning of WWII actually brings Poland up at least briefly

eimyr

@Miniman Do you mind if I ask where you are from?

Miniman

23:06

@eimyr Not at all, Australia.

eimyr

Your bemusement at... oh

So that's about the furthest you can be from my country

trogdor

lol

Guam is actually pretty close to Australia (geographically speaking anyway), but to be fair it basically doesn't show up on the map

BESW

@eimyr "sai-EE pan" is most correct, but the average English speaker will say "SAI-pan" and that's plenty close enough. "sai PAN" is not.

Miniman

@eimyr If nothing else, your country plays a very important (and prominent!) part in world history.

eimyr

@Miniman though people argue about whether it's intentional

We seem to be where a lot of history happens, regardless of our preferences.

trogdor

23:08

mm not every country gets to be in world history for any reason it wants

heck, Guam's most famous parts in history are when another country colonizes it

eimyr

As the Chinese curse says, may you live in interesting times

trogdor

Spain, then the USA, then Japan, then the USA again

eimyr

heck, a lot of countries get that

colonisation is probably the most interesting bit of the history of majority of countries, either passive or active

trogdor

not that any of that made Guam particularly famous, but I said it's most famous parts

not actual famous parts XD

@eimyr this is true, it's a very wide spun idea

eimyr

man, don't we just love coming to other's people lands and taking their shit

trogdor

23:12

apparently that is just a thing that some people can't keep themselves from doing

BESW

When the Spanish first showed up on Guam and started taking the locals' stuff, the locals just rowed out to the ships and started taking stuff from the Spanish.

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This got us our first name, The Island of Thieves.

trogdor

yeah

that was so hypocritical

eimyr

well, it was an island of thieves

that's pretty spot on

the ship should also be called a Ship of Thieves

trogdor

the locals thought it was trade, the Spanish thought they could get free stuff

eimyr

but still

but I love the idea

BESW

23:17

"Jack Wright and his Electric Deers," a story for boys from the 1890s http://buff.ly/1ZPUGeP https://t.co/sGOgAUUYXF

Tweeted by SlateVault on January 26, 2016 at 6:00 PM

eimyr

@BESW Which one found it?

BESW

@eimyr Without a link to the specific message you're responding to, I have no idea what you're asking.

eimyr

Which of the four entities comprising of the Zordon-like BESW stumbled upon your last linked tweet?

BESW

The one that maintains my Twitter feed, obviously.

eimyr

right

BESW

23:23

(I thought you were more likely asking which Spaniard found Guam--it was a Portuguese, actually.)

I very rarely stumble onto tweets; I curate a carefully chosen Twitter feed filled with folks who re-tweet awesome stuff.

eimyr

I see

As expected of a mighty Quadriad.

BESW

In this case, it was shared by the effervescent Sydney Padua.

BESW

23:41

...also, since when am I Zordon-like? I didn't know Zordon was a quadripartite being.

This is a fascinating ngram.

I really want to know where those sudden upswings in "tripartite" came from.

This is part of it, but doesn't explain all of the upswings.

eimyr

isn't that when tripartite suits became known as such because there were also ones with no vest, you know, the ones for the peasants?

BESW

Maybe? I wouldn't know. But if you separate out the tripartite lines by capitalisation, those early 1800s spikes are only visible in "Tripartite" with a capital T.

Lowercase "tripartite" actually dips a little during the same period.

Look at this shape! That's gotta mean something interesting.

eimyr

it looks almost like a cultist

yum yum

trogdor

lol

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